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CMS Krasno / S. Reich Co. pulegoso glass lamp base

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rocco:
Great pulegoso piece from 1940s Czechoslovakia :D

big (25 cm high, 24 cm wide) lamp base made at CMS Krasno / S. Reich &Co.
Ochre and yellow foamy glass, with applied mottled decor in brown, orange and teal; white handles.
(Like in my other CMS pulegoso vases, constructed of two evenly thick but differently coloured pulegoso layers).

From the Kollektion "Antik", produced in the very early 1940s (and probably designed by Jaroslav Antonín Junek) >> Link to PK with pattern book
On page 12 there is a drawing of a pulegoso lamp base very similar to mine (pattern nr 41/163/1752)

English version of the text >> here

Michael

Anik R:
Absolutely FANTASTIC, Michael!  Especially when it's lit.  Your finds are unbeatable!

bOBA:
Great piece Michael! These are just as rare and interesting as early Beranek and are all really part of the same story, as you know, it is not necessarily impossible that Beranek made some of these pieces before heading to Skrdlovice. I think they are not easy to find either. CMS and early Beranek do not seem to have had widely different production numbers, of this type of qualty glass. Amazing how infrequently these things appear for sale worldwide, on ebay, auction sites or at fairs. The departments making this stuff at both sites cannot have been sizeable concerns at all, rather specialist... Jindrich was lucky to find one catalogue, it is the only one I have really seen, what a helpful document it is too. A piece a lot like this was at Sypka once I think, but the do not appear often do they?

lovely find,


Robert (bOBA)

rocco:
Thanks! - Nice and unusual, isn't it - a pulegoso lamp. :)

And though the Martinuzzi influence is quite obvious, it is instantly recognizable as Czech...

From my experience, the CMS / Reich pulegoso pieces are even harder to find than early Beranek ones.
I am quite sure, though, that some CMS ones get easily misidentified as Beranek; the stunning vase Alfredo showed >> here on CW, could well be CMS Reich as well. The decor seems similar to that on my lamp.

Robert, do you remember in which Sypka auction you saw a similar piece?

Michael

obscurities:
First of all, I absolutely love this piece......

I wanted to comment that I have several pieces of Beranek production with the same label as is on the vase in CW posted by Alfredo. 

One of them is Shape 4515 from 1945 - This is a design by Vlasta Lichtàgovà and discussed in Robert's book.

Pic attached. This is not conclusive that his is not Krasno, but I thought it was worth mentioning since we seem to see more marked and labeled examples over here.

Craig

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